Posted on 06/29/2011 10:21:37 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The bus tour has come and gone. Now, so has the movie premiere.
A flattering “documentary” (from the looks of these clips, it appears more like an infomercial) about Sarah Palin, the former Alaskan governor and one-time vice presidential nominee, had its first showing in the tiny town of Pella, Iowa on Tuesday. But despite plenty of speculation that it could “serve as a galvanizing prelude to Palin's prospective presidential campaign,” the event went off with little fanfare. Palin attended a post-premiere barbeque and had lunch at a Panera Bread restaurant with a GOP fundraiser, where politics reportedly wasn’t on the table.
Her apparent indecision whether to run or not, reports Politico, is starting to frustrate early state political players who are just ready for an answer already. (Palin told reporters Tuesday that she’s “still contemplating” the answer to “such a life-changing, relatively earth-shattering type of decision”; her daughter Bristol, meanwhile, told Fox News the same day her mother’s mind was made up.) But such perennial fence-sitting could do a lot worse than frustrate political operatives. Palin’s keep-them-guessing approach is in danger from turning what was a smart, masterful strategy for publicity into a liability of indecisiveness.
I get that playing the suspense card is good for media attention, keeping your name in the news until the last moment possible. I get that floating trial balloons is necessary to know what kind of funding, contributions and campaign infrastructure you’ll be able to attract. And I understand that running for president is an “earth-shattering” decision that’s not to be taken lightly.
But neither are the decisions to go to war with Libya, pull the trigger on a secret operation to kill Osama bin Laden, or bail out the auto industry....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
One of the things I love about Sarah is that she will NOT allow the press to dictate her moves!
Hell, "Paper or plastic" holds up the line for hours.
Decision making abilities, my behind.
shushwalshe Shushannah Walshe
RT @RealClearScott: Palin is on the clock for jury duty starting tomorrow. In theory could last a month. She’s eager to restart the bus tour
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QUAINT= a black and white tv that still works.
MSM= quaint but not really working.
This is showing the fraying Commie arguments of the dying, worthless rag known as the Washington Post.
They sound like a whining deer hunter who complains that the target keeps moving around and won’t just pose there to get shot.
And they did it by listing things that he followed someone else’s lead on.
Sarah is waiting until, essentially, the statute of limitations is over (July 27, two years to the day after her resignation) to shield her from countless more frivolous lawsuits aimed at her time as Governor. When the press then questions her about her delay in announcing she will hammer home the point that the Dems both locally and nationally had embarked in a scorched earth strategy via the lawsuits and she had to 1) protect her state by taking away the target, her and 2) eliminate that distraction if she wanted to run for President unimpeded.
Then if the press asks her about “Troopergate” she would note that she was exonerated but then add that if she had actually been guilty of what was being claimed by Democrats, if she had been a Chicago politician, then her actions would have been considered a “resume enhancer.”
I'm an impatient person and Sarah is not so I'm more than willing to cool my jets and let her make her decisions based on knowledge that she has and I don't.
She could wait until November to declare and still win, why give her enemies more time to prepare by stepping forward this early?
That’s incorrect. It’s two years from discovery of alleged ethical violations. If they found something they could use in her e-mail dump, then the two year clock would start then.
Or at least that’s my understanding of the wording of the law.
At this point I am with Michelle Bachmann. I hope Palin announces she is running for the Senate. She would be a shoe in, and then she can make a run in 2016. It is so important that we have a president whose values are based upon the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob!
What a snide little twit!
If she announces before her movie runs its course, do theaters have to give equal time to other candidates? Do television ads for the movie count as “political ads”, requiring more “equal time”?
Indecision???
The term implies that the candidate is overtly wavering back and forth without making a firm decision. She has done none of that. If she has made a decision she is not letting the press and the GOP elite dictate when she announces. That is not indecision.
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